Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-27
MISCELLANE ITEMS.

A VALUABLE plant must have been
an OdOntOglOssum, which was sold
IN London for 80 guineas.
The petroleum found in Egypt is
used only for lubricating and fuel pur-
poses, and not for lighting.
FLORIDA merchants are already
shipping large quantities of new po-
tatoes to northern markets.
TRACHEoTOMY has been attempted
on horses in England to cure them of
roaring, and tried with success.
| A TOUR1sTin Florida says he has not
been able to find q verified instance of
an alligator injuring d man or child.
OVER 10000 people make living
st the rag business in New York City.
The Italians engaged in the business
number 1000.
| IT is believed that thousands will
be added to Alaska's population, as
mining and exploring are to be ener-
getically prosecuted.
THE Concord philosophers will this
year devote themselves to consider
alton of Aristotle and his philosophy
in relation to modern thought.
In Richmond, Vs., policemen are
appointed for term of years. The
city council is now considering an Or
dinance emitting policemen to hold
their positions during good behavior.
| EXPERIMENTS tried with the new
electrical device for use in feeding
sheets of paper to printing presses
prove quite successful. 1t is auto
matte, and notice OF any trouble is
signaled at once by ringing q bell.
THE phrase, External vigilance is
the price of liberty" was used by
Wendell Phillips in an anti-sla very
/, Grafton delivered in Boston in 1852,
and then stated that no scholar had
been able to ascertain it's origin.
THE English papers say that St.
Patrick's day was more generally OBJ
served In London this year than in
any year since 1849. Bunches of
shamrock were worn by English hber-
ais and radicals as well as Dy the
Irish.
THE sewing machine industry has
become SO Improbable that the larg-
est manufacturers in Berlin are reduc-
ing their operations and turning their
attention to other trades. One firm
has reduced it's force of 1000 to 400
men, and has begun to manufacture
automatic weighing machines.
A LARGE consignment of American
bibles containing copyright edition
of the revised version of the scrip
lures, which was sent to Wolseley,
South Australia, has been seized and
forwarded to the collector Of customs
to be held until it is decided whether
they infringe on the English copyright
act.
The ladies of Manassas, Va. have
formed memorial association for
the purpose Of putting stone wall
around the confederate cemetery on
the historic hill near Bull Run. If
each southern state were to contrib
ute 5000 the proposed wall could be
built.
"SUMMER SCHOOLS" will be very
popular the coming summer. Bow
doin College will have a summer
school for the study of science at
Mount Hermon. Mr.. Moody will
have a Bible summer school, and
Harvard is to have a summer school
| for physical training.
| ENGLAND is the only country in
Europe where the military forces are
recruited by voluntary enlistment,
Therefore her industries benefit enor-
mously by the comparatively small
number OF young men withdrawn
from them and saddled upon the
national earnings.
THE anthropological editor of the
Paris Figaro discovered that San au-
topsy revealed the fact that twenty
Chinese pirates who were killed in
TOnquin had concealed their money
and precious stones under the skin OF
their thighs, which they had after
ward neatly sewed up"
i, AT q recent trial OF bloodhounds at
the convict camp at Friars' Point,
Miss, a negro under ten years SEN
tence was released and told he could
have his liberty if he escaped the dogs.
The convict had three hours start,
but the dogs ran the poor fellow down
before he had gone twenty miles.
| SEVERAL months ago number OF
Scotch girls were imported to take
the place of Cinnamon in the iute-
mills at Oakland, Cal. The expert
ment proved failure, however, since
all but three of the girls have found
/ OohOA cShA <hcAO p1OhOcSOAO CAAHAOy-
ment. Many American girls, born in
Oakland, have taken their places.
| APPARENTLY the German soldier
doesn't know much about his own
country. A recent report of the
Third Army Corps states that "only
an Insignificant part knew the names
of our famous generals in modern
times, q large number knew nothing
at all about the events of the three
last campaigns, and the most lamen-
table ignorance as to the members of
the Royal House was also found to
exist" To all of which the German
soldier would probably reply that it
is his business to fight and not to
know things.
SOME old residents have arrived at
the Paris zoo. They include g. three
striped paradoxure from India; a
Scoops owl, captured at sea near Aden;a
white-fronted heron, from Australia;
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